A (very) little background--I am brand new to this forum, directed here from a link in another forum, but have had the Tolkien books as some of my dearest treasures for -- eek, I hate to say it -- 40 years. The link I followed was directly to the Virtual Tolkien Study Group, and I was amazed at the level of discussion. As well as I thought I knew Middle Earth, I found many insights in the posts. So I was disappointed to see it break off after Chapter 3 of The Two Towers. In restarting it, I would try to use the same format, with a new post for each chapter containing a summary and a few questions. I have written up potential posts for most of the rest of TTT already, and would start by posting Chapter 4. The previous posters were doing a chapter a month, but I'm thinking of a chapter every 2 weeks.

If you haven't already looked at the earlier posts, I would recommend doing that to get an idea of how it works. I will put up my TTT Chapter 4 summary later today. I am no more of an expert on the books than anyone else, and definitely less so than those who've read the History and the Letters et al., so I don't think of this as teacher/student but as a round-table discussion.

Thank you! I think you're doing a great job. I'm never the one who can think up questions. But it sure is fun answering them, and seeing how others do! As often as I've read these books, there are always things that I missed or forgot.

Fattylumpkin, like Notta Hobbit said, there's no need to sign up. That was the custom long ago, when this thing was more organized and more people were participating. So, just go ahead and join the discussion!

K lackluster maybe me and you can grab this thing by the horns and make it happen first we need to discover how many people we got ....maybe get the moderaters to put a new thread in the community or somewhere visable

I'm still here!! I wish there would be some more action. As I said before, I'm no good at starting chapters! Once someone has a topic up, I'll cheerfully answer it to the best of my ability! I love discussing my favorite literature; just give me an opportunity! But I'm NOT a starter!